Comments on: Arianna finally free to speak mind in TechCrunch-AOL imbroglio http://boingboing.net/2011/09/12/arianna-finally-free-to-speak-mind-in-techcrunch-aol-imbroglio.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 22 May 2013 16:30:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Cowicide http://boingboing.net/2011/09/12/arianna-finally-free-to-speak-mind-in-techcrunch-aol-imbroglio.html#comment-1211913 Cowicide Wed, 14 Sep 2011 06:08:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=117082#comment-1211913 <blockquote>This story is not important. Almost nothing is important here.</blockquote> http://www.godlikeproductions.com/sm/custom/dmltohkp.jpeg <blockquote>It's fun to read someone describe unpaid child labor as "giving kids a chance to be published," though.</blockquote>Wut? Ok, you got me, I got to read this now. ;D

This story is not important. Almost nothing is important here.

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It’s fun to read someone describe unpaid child labor as “giving kids a chance to be published,” though.

Wut? Ok, you got me, I got to read this now. ;D

]]> By: Rob Beschizza http://boingboing.net/2011/09/12/arianna-finally-free-to-speak-mind-in-techcrunch-aol-imbroglio.html#comment-1211794 Rob Beschizza Wed, 14 Sep 2011 01:27:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=117082#comment-1211794 This story is not important. Almost nothing is important here. It's fun to read someone describe unpaid child labor as "giving kids a chance to be published," though. This story is not important. Almost nothing is important here.

It’s fun to read someone describe unpaid child labor as “giving kids a chance to be published,” though.

]]> By: Forrest O. http://boingboing.net/2011/09/12/arianna-finally-free-to-speak-mind-in-techcrunch-aol-imbroglio.html#comment-1211194 Forrest O. Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:53:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=117082#comment-1211194 Michael who? Michael who?

]]> By: Cowicide http://boingboing.net/2011/09/12/arianna-finally-free-to-speak-mind-in-techcrunch-aol-imbroglio.html#comment-1210777 Cowicide Tue, 13 Sep 2011 06:51:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=117082#comment-1210777 I don't want to be one of those people... but why should I care about this?  Someone please explain why this story is getting so much traction?  I've kept shrugging this thing off as it doesn't interest me, but it keeps popping up all over the place like a dirty whack-a-mole I can't kill. Someone please finish this sentence: "This story is important because ..." I don’t want to be one of those people… but why should I care about this?  Someone please explain why this story is getting so much traction?  I’ve kept shrugging this thing off as it doesn’t interest me, but it keeps popping up all over the place like a dirty whack-a-mole I can’t kill.

Someone please finish this sentence:

“This story is important because …”

]]> By: javaxman http://boingboing.net/2011/09/12/arianna-finally-free-to-speak-mind-in-techcrunch-aol-imbroglio.html#comment-1210752 javaxman Tue, 13 Sep 2011 05:39:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=117082#comment-1210752 The guys at Forbes are probably just mad that they didn't think of getting a bunch of high school kids to blog for them first. I wouldn't put much stock in what Forbes - an obvious practical and ideological competitor to HuffPo - says about their competition. Why is giving kids a chance to be published on an AOL/HuffPo site any worse than how Facebook or any other site uses it's user-generated content? Talk about a misleading, muckraking headline. Like Forbes has a lot of room to talk about how someone pays bloggers, anyway... As for TechCrunch and Arrington - 120% what AwesomeRobot said at the top of the comments. I think less of BoinBoing for having mentioned this whole 'story': don't feed he trolls. Arrington is why I always avoided that site, and anyone who opposes him, I'm going to like them better for it. By comparison, Arianna probably does deserve to be taken seriously... if only by comparison. If you're suggesting taking the side of Arrington, WSJ and/or Forbes against *anything*, that's where I'd suggest you might want to question your judgement, frankly. The guys at Forbes are probably just mad that they didn’t think of getting a bunch of high school kids to blog for them first. I wouldn’t put much stock in what Forbes – an obvious practical and ideological competitor to HuffPo – says about their competition. Why is giving kids a chance to be published on an AOL/HuffPo site any worse than how Facebook or any other site uses it’s user-generated content? Talk about a misleading, muckraking headline. Like Forbes has a lot of room to talk about how someone pays bloggers, anyway…

As for TechCrunch and Arrington – 120% what AwesomeRobot said at the top of the comments. I think less of BoinBoing for having mentioned this whole ‘story’: don’t feed he trolls. Arrington is why I always avoided that site, and anyone who opposes him, I’m going to like them better for it. By comparison, Arianna probably does deserve to be taken seriously… if only by comparison.

If you’re suggesting taking the side of Arrington, WSJ and/or Forbes against *anything*, that’s where I’d suggest you might want to question your judgement, frankly.

]]> By: adonai http://boingboing.net/2011/09/12/arianna-finally-free-to-speak-mind-in-techcrunch-aol-imbroglio.html#comment-1210520 adonai Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:36:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=117082#comment-1210520 "Arianna Huffington finally has some thoughts, presented in the form of an attack on the WSJ's coverage of the affair, which she thought was shoddy and gossipy" Well, I suppose she'd be the best person to spot something like that. “Arianna Huffington finally has some thoughts, presented in the form of an attack on the WSJ’s coverage of the affair, which she thought was shoddy and gossipy”

Well, I suppose she’d be the best person to spot something like that.

]]> By: jackbird http://boingboing.net/2011/09/12/arianna-finally-free-to-speak-mind-in-techcrunch-aol-imbroglio.html#comment-1210505 jackbird Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:18:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=117082#comment-1210505 Dude.  Spotify.  All that stuff in that dusty box of cassettes in your attic is just waiting for you to give the one more listen you need. Dude.  Spotify.  All that stuff in that dusty box of cassettes in your attic is just waiting for you to give the one more listen you need.

]]> By: extra88 http://boingboing.net/2011/09/12/arianna-finally-free-to-speak-mind-in-techcrunch-aol-imbroglio.html#comment-1210352 extra88 Mon, 12 Sep 2011 22:09:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=117082#comment-1210352 I have no interest in a tiff between blog elites but thanks for the Pet Shop Boys! All my Pet Shop Boys was on cassette and I haven't owned a player since I ditched my car six years ago. I have no interest in a tiff between blog elites but thanks for the Pet Shop Boys! All my Pet Shop Boys was on cassette and I haven’t owned a player since I ditched my car six years ago.

]]> By: andyhavens http://boingboing.net/2011/09/12/arianna-finally-free-to-speak-mind-in-techcrunch-aol-imbroglio.html#comment-1210304 andyhavens Mon, 12 Sep 2011 21:22:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=117082#comment-1210304 Is that Sean Young in that video? Is that Sean Young in that video?

]]> By: Intenzity http://boingboing.net/2011/09/12/arianna-finally-free-to-speak-mind-in-techcrunch-aol-imbroglio.html#comment-1210262 Intenzity Mon, 12 Sep 2011 20:49:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=117082#comment-1210262 Um, Huffington thought the coverage was "gossipy"??? Guess she knows a lot about that. What the hell did you expect, doing a deal with AOL and Huffington??? Duh. Arrington is supposed to smart. What did the think was going to happen? Um, Huffington thought the coverage was “gossipy”???

Guess she knows a lot about that. What the hell did you expect, doing a deal with AOL and Huffington??? Duh. Arrington is supposed to smart. What did the think was going to happen?

]]> By: Raederle http://boingboing.net/2011/09/12/arianna-finally-free-to-speak-mind-in-techcrunch-aol-imbroglio.html#comment-1210251 Raederle Mon, 12 Sep 2011 20:37:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=117082#comment-1210251 We should sit them down and show them the Taiwanese animation. We should sit them down and show them the Taiwanese animation.

]]> By: BarBarSeven http://boingboing.net/2011/09/12/arianna-finally-free-to-speak-mind-in-techcrunch-aol-imbroglio.html#comment-1210229 BarBarSeven Mon, 12 Sep 2011 20:18:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=117082#comment-1210229 One issue has not been addressed: How should we—as responsible adults—talk to children about the TechCrunch/Mike Arrington/Arianna Huffington kerfuffle? How will future generations cope with the shockwaves created by this nontroversy? One issue has not been addressed: How should we—as responsible adults—talk to children about the TechCrunch/Mike Arrington/Arianna Huffington kerfuffle? How will future generations cope with the shockwaves created by this nontroversy?

]]> By: AwesomeRobot http://boingboing.net/2011/09/12/arianna-finally-free-to-speak-mind-in-techcrunch-aol-imbroglio.html#comment-1210221 AwesomeRobot Mon, 12 Sep 2011 20:05:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=117082#comment-1210221 I refused to read TechCrunch solely because of Mike Arrington. Arrington has just proven time and time again that he's a grade-A certified douchebag, he's pissed of everyone from Leo Laporte and John Dvorak, to Reddit, and even his own goddamned readers. Sure if he had a platform to stand on behind all the Arrington-related incidents it would be a different story, but the guy's just an empty trolling machine. When it comes to trolling he seemingly hasn't left a single stone unturned - and we all should know better than to feed the trolls. I refused to read TechCrunch solely because of Mike Arrington. Arrington has just proven time and time again that he’s a grade-A certified douchebag, he’s pissed of everyone from Leo Laporte and John Dvorak, to Reddit, and even his own goddamned readers. Sure if he had a platform to stand on behind all the Arrington-related incidents it would be a different story, but the guy’s just an empty trolling machine. When it comes to trolling he seemingly hasn’t left a single stone unturned – and we all should know better than to feed the trolls.

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